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  • Jasper Journey – ICEFIELDS – Saddle Up


    when i grow up / first aid kit

    The Columbia Icefield

    So … when you get to the Icefield you’ll see this place: 

    Except it was rainy. Drizzly rain. 
    The Centre is full of people from every place on the planet. 
    It has a restaurant/cafeteria; a gift shop; a viewing deck; historical displays; toilets … lots of stuff.
    This is also where you buy tickets for the Icefield Tour. They cost over 100 bucks each.
    Then you head out back …
    … and jump on one of these things. 
    They’re called buses.

    This is Shawn … or Shane?. Our driver.
    You can see the drizzly rain. 

    Below; MAP: Where we’re going ...

    On the bus … 

    10 minute bus ride?
    Ice Explorer Depot ahead.

    We made it.

    The Ice Explorer. 
    Not your average bus.

    VROOOOOM !

    Let’s ride !

    Next … To the Ice!

  • Jasper Journey – Icefield of Yesteryore


    Climb Ev’ry Mountain / Peggy Wood
    from The Sound of Music / Rogers and Hammerstein

    The Columbia Icefield

    The Icefields as they are today.
    Coast Publishing Co (Publisher) . Athabasca Glacier and Columbia Icefield Chalet, Banff – Jasper highway, Canadian Rockies. Vancouver: Coast Publishing Co., Vancouver, B.C, cca. 1920.
    Harmon Byron (Photographer) . Columbia Icefields. Banff: Photographed and Copyrighted by Byron Harmon, Banff, Canada, [before 1942].
    Six-Hundred Lovat Scouts trained during the Second World War on the Athabasca Glacier in 1944. Yellowhead-Museum and Archives.

    Finally we arrive at our modern Icefield conveyance:
    The ICE EXPLORER!

    Next … To the ICE !

2 responses to “Jasper Journey – ICEFIELDS – Saddle Up”

  1. maui1 Avatar
    maui1

    This a great post on your trip to Jasper. These are really great pictures of the ice explore buses. I also really like the picture of the mountain and the discovery center from the bus.

    1. jcalberta Avatar
      jcalberta

      Pics are from Rose, her son Ray and his wife Sarah and myself. Had a lot to chose from.

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